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During the Orioles’ rebuild, fans often found solace in the success of the organization’s minor league teams. The big league club slogged through 100-loss seasons, but up-and-coming prospects stood out on the farm to give the fan base hope for its beleaguered team. Now, with the Orioles coming off a 101-win season and still owning…

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A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey Friday morning, rattling parts of Maryland and other surrounding states. Citizens reported feeling the quake in Baltimore and Annapolis, as well as the Eastern Shore and Washington, D.C. Did you feel it? The Baltimore Sun Reader Poll is an unscientific survey in which website users volunteer their opinions on…

A Baltimore judge who touched a female lawyer without her consent after a professional event last year resigned amidst judicial discipline charges stemming from the encounter. District Judge Kevin M. Wilson’s resignation, effective Monday, prompted the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing by judges and recommends discipline to the Maryland Supreme…

Soon, I will announce my proposed budget for fiscal 2025, the greatest portion of which will go to Harford County Public Schools. Nonetheless, my office has already received form letters without return addresses, some coming from students, in a pressure campaign organized by the teachers’ union. The intent is to force me to increase school…

By ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA (Associated Press) DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of corpses that have lain too long in muck and ruin, the ones the dogs didn’t devour. Oleksii Yukov, a 38-year-old martial arts instructor who leads a team of volunteer body…

A Baltimore man was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Carroll County Circuit Court judge Wednesday for his involvement in a robbery last year at a Hampstead tobacco shop. Gary Qian Newton, 48, was found guilty of first-degree assault, robbery with a dangerous weapon, use of a firearm during a violent crime and…

The Walters Art Museum announced Wednesday that Julia Marciari-Alexander will end her 11-year tenure as the institution’s director in September. Marciari-Alexander has accepted a position as president of the New York-based Samuel H. Kress Foundation, which provides grants and other support for the preservation and study of European art, architecture and archeology throughout the United…

In the 1960s, it was determined that there was a need for another crossing of the Baltimore Harbor other than the existing Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Thruway. The proposal was for an Outer Baltimore Tunnel over the Patapsco River but proposals and costs came in too high and the less expensive option of a bridge was…

Thanks to The Baltimore Sun for outstanding coverage of the ongoing NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. Maryland fans should take note of the major roles played this year by individuals with deep local roots. Angel Reese who leads the LSU Tigers women’s team was a standout at Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore before going…

Larry Lucchino, the former Orioles president and CEO who was instrumental in the creation of Camden Yards, died Tuesday morning. He was 78. Lucchino also served as Red Sox president and CEO from 2002 to 2015, a period that coincided with three World Series championships. In addition to the club’s historic championships in 2004, 2007…

Mar 28, 2024: Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout leaps for a drive belted by Baltimore Orioles batter Cedric Mullins which clears the wall during opening day of Major League Baseball at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. (Karl Merton Ferron/Staff) The search continues for the six missing construction workers that were on Baltimore’s Francis…

The 21st annual Annapolis Book Festival will return to the Key School this month, showcasing some of the most renowned authors in contemporary literature. The free festival is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 27 on the campus of Key School at 534 Hillsmere Drive in Annapolis. Highlighting the…

The Johns Hopkins University graduate student workers union reached a tentative agreement with the private university Friday. Members of the Teachers and Researchers United, or TRU, are Ph.D. students who teach or conduct research while earning their degrees. They will vote to ratify the contract over the next month, which sets a minimum stipend of…

A temporary shipping channel opened Monday in the Port of Baltimore to clear a path for responders trying to salvage the Francis Scott Key Bridge as well as the ship that struck it. The Dali, a Singapore-flagged vessel, has been aground in the Patapsco River since March 26, when it struck one of the bridge’s…

Navy women’s lacrosse has nine seniors on the roster. Due to injuries and other circumstances, only two of them — backup attacker Lindsay Beardmore and starting defender Caroline Stefans — see significant action. Those two, along with a talented group of underclassmen, made sure the seniors who don’t normally get into games did so on…

I followed in my grandparents footsteps to start a small business here in Maryland. But when I took out a loan I thought I could trust, the lack of regulatory protections in our state put me at risk of losing the business I’ve been building for more than a decade. The financing company quoted their…

Kudos to the House of Delegates for approving “worldwide combined reporting” to clamp down on the abusive interstate and international corporate profit shifting that’s been costing our state hundreds of millions of dollars of badly needed revenue every year. (“Maryland House OKs budget bill with tax, fee, increases,” March 21) Between them, McCormick, T. Rowe…

As Women’s History Month draws to a close, let’s take a look at the role some of Carroll’s women played when the United States entered World War I. It was very impressive. Women’s right to vote was still a couple of years away when Congress declared war on Germany in the spring of 1917. Carroll…

As state and federal resources work to salvage the Francis Scott Key Bridge and plan for its replacement, Baltimore-area nonprofits and organizations are raising money to assist families and workers impacted by the collapse and port shutdown in addition to setting up volunteer opportunities to help those working on the recovery operation. Here are ways…

The acknowledgement before the top of the third inning on Opening Day at Oriole Park at Camden Yards of those three heroic officers who cleared traffic off the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday morning reminded me of a game I went to at Fenway Park in Boston early in 2013 (“Did warnings to get…